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Fresh Baked Irish Soda Bread Easier to bake than driving to the store! Irish White Soda Bread is a really quick Irish bread to make and very tasty! Soda bread only takes 2-3 minutes to make and 30-40 minutes to bake. It is certainly one of Darina Allen’s “Great…
A Jointed Chicken and Fresh Raw Milk….
Originally posted on Catharine's ACTS:
Chickens love whey This just happens to be the end of my THIRD week here at The Ballymaloe Cookery School. Trying to stay with my plan to write every week has failed, however it is possible that I will catch up soon and be current. So decided to just…
ORANGE IS MY NEW CHOCOLATE!
Orange is my new Chocolate! How could this be true you might ask! It happened gradually over the past four months. I just never knew that an orange had so many different uses and flavor enhancements. Normally would just peel, quarter or juice during the summer months. Which all are really great ways to enjoy…
RETREATING AND RESTING TO RESTORE….
WEEK EIGHT AT THE BALLYMALOE COOKERY SCHOOL STARTED WITH THINKING MAYBE I SHOULD JUST SKIP CLASSES FOR A FEW DAYS OR EVEN PACK UP MY THINGS AND HEAD TOWARD HOME BACK IN AMERICA. THERE WASN’T ANY ONE THING THAT I CAN PUT MY FINGER ON THAT WOULD MAKE MY BRAIN THINK THAT WAY. BELIEVE…
Friday Pizza and Mid Terms!!
Week number six ended here at Ballymaloe Cookery School with Pizza and Mid Terms, in that order! The Mid Terms consisted of performing at least two random technic, which hopefully we (I) learned over the last six weeks and identifying some 10 lettuce leaf, naming a dozen herbs and at least two recipes in which said herb had…
Sweating….
“Don’t sweat the small stuff”….. Right? You probably have heard this a few times or a thousand times in your life! So why sweat the onion? ….. and other vegetables? Flavor! Sweating takes on a whole new life here at the Ballymaloe Cookery School. Sweating an onion is even considered one of the…
The Great Irish Breakfast
This is a very traditional Irish Breakfast First start with Rashers and fry for the best flavor. Buy fat bacon and remove the rind. It helps to put a few slits in the side of the rasher so that it lays flat while cooking. Have a pan quite hot and add a time dash…
Beauty is Everywhere….Week Three
It is a calm walk to class everyday and I pray for my family and friends as I walk to the school. Then it is totally wild in the kitchen with lots of smiles as we begin the morning, lines forming as we wait to weigh our ingredients, pans moving to the hob, instructors giving…
A Jointed Chicken and Fresh Raw Milk….
This just happens to be the end of my THIRD week here at The Ballymaloe Cookery School. Trying to stay with my plan to write every week has failed, however it is possible that I will catch up soon and be current. So decided to just go ahead and share just a little about week…
FIRST THINGS FIRST…VISIT THE ORGANIC GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE….
WEEK ONE…DAY ONE OF THE 12 WEEK CERTIFICATE CLASS AND COMPOSTING IS WHERE IT ALL BEGINS FOR GOOD FOOD… There is one common thread to life here and it starts with this quote, “Remember this is where it all starts, in the good earth, and if you don’t have clean fertile soil you wont have…
Goodbye Ballycotton….Hello Ballymaloe Cookery School
Before packing up and leaving Ballycotton it was just the most beautiful morning …so off I went for a walk. At the harbor there were mostly men getting ready for a sail or out to catch fish. Just prior to checking had an opportunity to have a really lovely share with Margaret and…
A Heart Filled with Gratitude For Dreams
First, This post is more for me than anyone who might read…..Hope you make your own list of of what fills your heart. At this moment I am so grateful for dreams and the desire to attend Ballymaloe Cookery School. Secondly grateful for support from my husband, all of our family and friends, for their…
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